This whole dinner began because we had taken our toddler with us to the grocery store, and as we walked through the produce section he was insistent we buy an orange pepper. And then he wanted a yellow pepper. And then a red one. It was like we were writing If You Give a Mouse A Bell Pepper in real time.

We fried up some eggplant drawing inspiration from Win Son’s fried eggplant recipe, which is to say the result was nothing like the original.

After seeing a photo of this Italian orange salad on Twitter, I knew I had to make it myself.

I decided to experiment with chicken tinga tacos.

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of quiche is Julia Child.